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HORTICULTURE 



May 13, 1911 



horticulture: 



TOL. XIII 



WAY 13, 1»U 



HO. 19 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILUSTRATION~A Burmuda Lily Field. 



PHALAENOPSIS X LEUCORRHODA— Illustrated— Af. 

 /. Pote 701 



A GARDENER'S VIEWS ON MENDEL'S LJ^W— Ken- 

 netli Fijilayson 701 



CHOISYA TERN AT A— Arthur E. Thatcher 701 



FRLUT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Young 

 Pot Vines — Packing Grapes — Early Forced Apples 

 and Pears — Young Figs — Late Vines — George H. 

 Penson 702 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Aquatics — Bouvardias — Chrysanthemums — 

 Ericas — Stocli for Vases and Boxes — Vincas — John 

 J. M. Fan-ell 703 



MENDEL'S LAW AS RELATED TO HEREDITY AND 

 BREEDING — Illustrated— Dr. Herrmann Decker 705 



OBITUARY: 

 Jacob Rudesule — John Dodds — Mrs. Caroline O. 

 Schilder — Martin Kelley — William Hamilton — George 

 Rogers — George Hollis — Henry Lohrenze — Niles 

 Nelson — Marv Eva Reissig 706 



BURMUDA AND THE LILIES—^. T. Boddington 707 



ROSE MRS. AARON WARD— Illustrated 707 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Newport Horticultural Society — New York Florists' 

 Club — American Gladiolus Society — National Sweet 

 Pea Society of America — American Association of 



Park Superintendents 708 



Chicago Florists' Club— Tarry town Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Yonkers Horticultural Society — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 709 



Guarantee Fund Returned 709 



CARNATION JUDGING— G. C. Watson 709 



SEED TRADE: 



Pea Prospects Good — Good Demand for Onion Seed 

 and Seed Potatoes — Present Weather Conditions — 

 Turnip Seed Going Up — Garden Produce Outlook — 

 Fate of New York Seed Bill — Too Much Muchness — 

 American Seed Trade Association — Notes 712 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 716 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 717 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago 719 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 721 



St. Louis 729 



DURING RECESS: 



Milwaukee vs. Chicago — New York Bowlers 727 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



Nierembergia gi'acilis 706 



Arnold Arboretum Secures E. H. Wilson 706 



Philadelphia Notes 706 



Currie for Milwaukee Park Board 710 



Chicago Notes .' 711 



St. Louis Notes 711 



Catalogues Received 712 



Personal 717 



News Notes 717 



A New Importing House 728 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 729 



Ai'chitecture and Building Show 730 



Incorporated 730 



Fire Record 730 



Professor Sargent has ma(3e a master stroke 



A happy jq securing the services of E. H. Wilson 



choice for the Arnold Arboretum. Not only the 



Arboretum and Boston, but New England 

 and the entire country are gainers, horticulturally, by 

 the decision of this eminent botanist and collector to 

 make his home with us. Already with a record of new 

 and valuable plant introductions far exceeding that of 

 Eobert Fortune^ this yottng man, so highly endowed by 

 nature and experience, has before him in the ordinary 

 course of years, a life of rare usefulness and we pre- 

 dict that he will leave the impress of his work on 

 American gardening to a degree unexcelled by any wbo 

 have preceded him. 



Indications are that tlie situation in- 



Prepare for the fiower trade is improving and that 



Memorial Day the height of the great spring crop 



has already passed. As to Menuti'ial 

 Day, so much depends upon the weather that nobody 

 can yet predict what is going to happen as regards 

 fiower supply either outdoor or indoor grown, but there 

 can be no excuse for the florist who neglects to provide 

 in good season fdr such other supplies as are especially 

 in demand for Memorial Day. The supply dealers — 

 those that deal in fresh green material and those offer- 

 ing manufactured goods have all jrat their best foot 

 forward and have not been backward in advertising 

 their wares. Each year sees a decided advance in varie- 

 ty and quality of the stock offered by these enterprising 

 allies of the florist business and they well deserve all 

 the prosperity which they now enjoy after years of 

 patient industrious effort to excel. 



Our "seasonable notes" correspondent 



A field lias something to say in this week's let- 



for business ter On the subject of vase and window 



box plants. This is a branch of the 

 florists' business which should count among the most 

 profitable but which, for some inscrutable reason, is 

 neglected by the majority of florists. If a customer 

 sends an order to have a veranda basket or box or cem- 

 etery vase filled, of course the commission is attended 

 to but any earnest effort to get people generally inter- 

 ested in the adornment of their homes and their p'aces 

 of business, public buildings, etc., is a very rare occur- 

 rence. The dwellers in our American cities are criti- 

 cised, with good reason, by visitors from abroad for the 

 barren appearance of their residential districts and the 

 unattractiveuess of their business streets as compared 

 with the greenery and floral emliellishment so freely 

 used in many European cities. There are old-country 

 customs and conditions which we do well to shun but 

 liere is one that has everything to recommend it and it 

 does seem as though the florist trade would be doing 

 itself a much larger and more permanent beneflt if they 

 would put in motion a well-directed and persistent ex- 

 ]iloitation of this promising branch of their business and 

 endeavor to arouse the public to an appreciation of such 

 things rather than to spend their energies fussing over 

 such trifles as a few carnation bouttonieres for "Mothers' 

 Day." 



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